Passenger Lists

Victims Lists, Passenger Manifests, and the Alleged Hijackers

According to the official story,
teams of four and five Islamic hijackers took over
Flights
11,
175,
77, and
93.
Victims lists for the four planes published by CNN and elsewhere
are free of Arab names.
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This fact has been highlighted as suspicious by some researchers
describing the lists as passenger manifests.
However, these lists are not passenger manifests,
but lists of victims, and hence include an implicit rationale
for excluding alleged hijackers.
In a different part of the CNN.com website
not directly referenced by the above-mentioned flight victims pages --
that entitled "September 11: A Memorial" --
CNN describes its criteria for including persons in its memorial
in a pop-up window labeled "About this site":

CONFIRMED DEAD Includes victims who have been confirmed dead
by a coroner's office or the Defense Department. It also includes those
a court has declared legally dead, even if no body has been recovered.
Once the court has made such a finding, a death certificate can be issued.

REPORTED DEAD Includes those whose deaths have been reported by family,
employers, mortuaries, places of worship or by the airlines that listed them
as aboard one of the four flights. Includes people for whom memorial services
have been held, even if their bodies have not been recovered
or positively identified.
(Those identified by federal authorities as the hijackers are not included).

Moussaoui Trial Exhibits

In July of 2006 a large collection of documents was published
on a website containing prosecution and defense exhibits
for the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui.
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Included in the prosecution exhibits are a set of Flash presentations
detailing the government's account of the passengers on all four
commandeered jetliners.
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The following table contains a snapshot from the Flash presentation
for each of the four flights, providing a list of passengers
and seat assignments.

American Airlines Flight 11

United Airlines Flight 175

American Airlines Flight 77

United Airlines Flight 93

Faxes of Alleged Flight Manifests

At around the time that the Moussaoui trial exhibits appeared,
a seven-page set of faxes purported to be the original flight manifests
was published on a weblog
claiming that they were from the Moussaoui trial exhibits.
If the faxes are in the exhibits, they are not easy to find:
the prosecution trial exhibits number 977,
and include many
huge, uninformatively-described files
requiring media players such as Flash to view.
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According to the 911myths.com website
the fax images were obtained from the FBI by Terry McDermott
while researching his book
Perfect Soldiers.
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The faxes, reproduced below,
include the names of the alleged hijackers.

American Airlines Flight 11

United Airlines Flight 175

American Airlines Flight 77

United Airlines Flight 93

Other Questions About the Alleged Hijackers

The highlighting of the absence of Arab names on victims lists
as suspicious may reflect erroneous assumptions,
but there are several other facts that
undermine the credibility of the FBI's published list of suspects.
One is the existence of a handful of reports in mainstream newspapers
of those suspects proclaiming their innocence after the attack.
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Six of the 19 suicide hijackers identified by the FBI
shortly after the attack
by name, photograph, and other personal details
reported themselves alive.
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Another is the
reported lack of piloting skills
of the suspects.